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Friday, May 6, 2016

Fun Friday Trust


Fun Friday Trust

Trust is important in ballet. Trusting your partner in a pas de deux, trusting your fellow dancers in a piece of choreography, and trusting your instructors to guide you. But there is one area where dancers seem to have a difficult time – they have “trust issues”.

This is the area of pirouette preparation. That’s right. Those preliminary positions and movements that happen before the turn. Ballet technique works. A correct preparation works, too. So often dancers wind up and throw themselves into a turn only to crash and burn because of too much force and poor alignment. This is not how to create a successful turn.

It’s all about the preparation. Trust it. Use a good plié, a good relevé, and maintain good alignment. That’s all it takes. No extras, no winding up, no throwing the shoulders or torso around. Apply a good preparation and then just spot and enjoy the ride.


From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:

Ballet Secret #14aa:  

Trust the preparation.”
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